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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Nortorf (City of Nortorf) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | Nr Dieser Schein verliert seine Gültigkeit einen Monat nach erfolgter öffentlicher Aufkündigung. EINST WAR NUR TORF AN DIESER STÄTTE WENN NORTORF TORF NUR HEUTE HÄTTE! Nortorf, den 10. Mai 1920. Der Bürgermeister. Namens der Stadtverordnetenversammlung. |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries the full polychrome coat of arms of Nortorf as the central vignette: a quartered shield surmounted by a crenellated masonry gate tower, with the upper-left quarter showing a grey cogwheel on a white field, the upper-right quarter a sheaf of grain on a blue field, and the lower half a mounted knight on a red field. The denomination '50' appears in bold black numerals at lower left and lower right, with 'Pf.' centred between them. The legend 'STADT NORTORF.' is inscribed in decorative script across the top, and the artist's name 'J. Raben' is noted in the lower right margin. |
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Nortorf is a small town in Schleswig-Holstein, and this note belongs to the vast Notgeld wave of 1920 — the second and more self-conscious phase, when German municipalities began treating emergency scrip as a local publishing opportunity rather than a purely functional stopgap. By this point the hyperinflationary crisis was still building, and cities with no access to adequate Reichsbank notes filled the gap with their own paper.
The designer credit to J. Raben is uncommon for issues at this scale — most small-town Notgeld went unsigned or was farmed out anonymously to regional printers. Worth noting for a Nortorf specialist.